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Doxygen vs GhostDoc

A side-by-side look at Doxygen and GhostDoc. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Doxygen

Doxygen

Development

Doxygen is a popular open-source documentation generator for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python and other programming languages. It allows developers to document their code with specially formatted comments that Doxygen then parses to produce documentation in various formats like HTML, LaTeX, and XML.

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GhostDoc

GhostDoc

Development

GhostDoc is a Visual Studio extension that automatically generates XML documentation comments for methods and properties based on their type, name, and other contextual information.

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